Asil Nadir

Asil Nadir   (businessman)
Born	1941-05-01 Lefka, British Cyprus
Nationality	Turkish Cypriot
Alma mater	Istanbul University
Criminal charge	False accounting and theft (13 specimen charges)
Criminal status	Released by Republic of Turkey
Children	4
Spouse	Nur Nadir
Interest of	JANCOM
Businessman who received a 10 year prison sentence for fraud.

Activities

Nadir was a prominent donor to the UK Conservative Party in the 1980s.

Trial

Shortly after Nadir's 2012 trial, Sean O'Neill of The Times revealed that the Serious Fraud Office had lost several crates of evidence relating to the case.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy?	article	December 2013	Andrew Rosthorn	Commentary on evidence suggesting that Asil Nadir is the victim of a gross miscarriage of justice in furtherance of the continued high-level cover-up of the 'Arms-to-Iraq' scandal through the 1980's
Document:Project Babylon and the still smoking Iraqi supergun	article	2 May 2014	Andrew Rosthorn	A startling account of the murky dealings of the British political establishment and security services surrounding the Arms-to-Iraq affair in general and the legal proceedings against Asil Nadir in particular
Document:Secret Justice	article	1 December 2013	Martin Tancock	A forensic examination of the legal shenanigans surrounding the 2012 trial of Asil Nadir. It clearly demonstrates how all branches of the Establishment can close ranks in defense of the indefensible. When gross illegalities on the part of government and its senior members must be hidden in the alleged Public or National Security interest, then the police, judges, ministers and senior civil servants can be relied upon to do whatever is necessary.

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